It's tragic enough that people ruin their own lives with drug abuse. But the tragedy is compounded when these same people produce children. As a society we are barely keeping up with the numbers of foster children that come into the system from parents that are incapable of caring for them. There is one organization that offers voluntary sterilization to drug addicts. While similar sterilization programs in the past have targeted various "undesirables" based upon some wrong-headed ideas, this program actually seem to make some sense.

As currently set up the sterilizations are permanent and that is the source of most of the controversy. But wouldn't it be helpful if a long-term but reversible sterilization was used? Like this? It's a new method that injects a sperm-destroying material into the vas that has a 10-year effectiveness and is easily reversible.